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Da Nang Studio Opens: Coastal Hub for APAC Delivery

A second Vietnam location expands timezone overlap with Australia, Singapore, and Japan clients.

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Da Nang gives Kan-Tek a coastal hub with strong talent pipelines and lower attrition than hyper-competitive metros.

Coastal city skyline at sunset in Da Nang Vietnam
Coastal city skyline at sunset in Da Nang Vietnam

The studio opens with two product squads focused on APAC fintech and logistics clients.

Studio and capacity announcements matter to clients planning roadmap timing — we share what changed in delivery capacity, not only press-release headlines.

Every milestone ships with a short written retro shared with partners so lessons travel across accounts.

Infrastructure mirrors HCMC: same CI templates, security

Team retrospective in a meeting room
Team retrospective in a meeting room

baselines, and pairing rituals with US discovery leads.

Go-live playbooks are repeatable: staged traffic, war-room channel, explicit rollback owner, and a 72-hour hypercare window.

Client NPS moves when communication is predictable — weekly written updates beat surprise calls when blockers appear.

Local community partnerships with universities feed internship

Team celebrating a product milestone
Team celebrating a product milestone

tracks we convert to full-time offers each quarter.

Internal tooling investments (CI gates, migration playbooks, token pipelines) pay off across every account — we prioritize platform work that removes toil from squads.

Hiring and onboarding are part of delivery capacity — ramp time is scheduled, not assumed.

Clients in Australia and Japan gain an extra hour of overlap for

Team retrospective in a meeting room
Team retrospective in a meeting room

live collaboration without late-night calls for US teams.

Community and university partnerships feed internship pipelines we convert to full-time offers each quarter.

Regional expansion decisions weigh timezone overlap, talent depth, and attrition — not only real estate cost.

We are hiring across React, NestJS, and mobile — reach out

Team celebrating a product milestone
Team celebrating a product milestone

via careers if APAC timezone delivery fits your roadmap.

Thank-you notes to partners are operational, not ceremonial — trust compounds into referrals and extension work.

Forward-looking roadmaps name what we will not build so expectations stay aligned.

The table below summarizes the reference points we review with client stakeholders before sign-off. Use it as a shared vocabulary in sprint planning and release reviews.

Quarter delivery snapshot

MilestoneRegionStatusClient impact
Studio expansionHCMC + Da NangCompleteHigher APAC overlap
Enterprise go-livesUS + APACShipped3 production launches
Internal toolingGlobalIn progressCI + migration kits
Next-quarter roadmapGlobalPlanningShared with partners
Hiring pipelineVietnamActive18 engineers onboarded
NPS / feedbackGlobalReviewed72 quarterly score

Run through this checklist in order — skipping steps because of deadline pressure is how regressions reach production. Assign an owner for each item before you schedule a launch window.

Pre-launch gates

  • Share release notes with client stakeholders.
  • Update public-facing timelines if milestones shifted.
  • Log lessons learned while context is fresh.
  • Confirm support runbooks reflect new capacity.
  • Publish internal retro summary for delivery squads.
  • Refresh careers and contact pages if capacity changed.

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